Collection

A6 INTERNATIONAL MODERN

This collection features masterworks of the early twentieth century by such American artists as Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, and Georgia O’Keeffe, as well as European masters such as Robert Delaunay, Fernand Léger, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso. Early works by Alexander Calder, Willem De Kooning, Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Arshile Gorky, David Smith, and Henry Moore mark a notable strength in mid-century Modernism. Many of these works came to Vassar in the form of gifts and bequests from important alumna collections, including those of Mrs. Arthur Schwab (Edna Bryner, class of 1907), Virginia Herrick Deknatel, class of 1929, Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd (Blanchette Hooker, class of 1931), and Katherine Sanford Deutsch, class of 1940.